Louis Anthes’s Answers

FIrst, I am not licensed to practice in Michigan. Second, I attached a link below to the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association, which you should contact to reach a lawyer as soon as possible. Let me just point out some issues, raised by your written question: Statement #1, "I'm a nurse who had an accident from driving drunk." Then, you write Statement #2, "I went to a party on New Year's Eve and people were smoking marijuana." I hope you can recognize it is not clear what the...

If you represent yourself in small claims court, for instance, and are filling out the forms indicating the damages award, I would recommend writing "$9,999" (the maximum) and when the judge reaches the issue of damages in the trial, you can say, honestly, you put that number because you didn't want to prejudice your rights to damages and are willing to explain the injury in terms of loss of enjoyment of "common space", perhaps calculated as a RATIO of the percentage of your share of prorated...

If you need legal assistance in this area, feel free to contact "Americans for Safe Access" for further help, or qualified attorney referrals.

Please note in California, there exists what is called the "Anti-SLAAP" law, which is meant to protect the First Amendment rights of artists and writers. I have attached a link below to explain further this law. If, as you claim, the names of persons have been changed, then you might take some comfort in knowing that the use of pseudonyms is a legitimate protection of your privacy. You might consider exercising your own First Amendment rights by publishing your own short-story or...

No grounds to get off. But, if you contest the ticket and appear at your appointed court date, and if the issuing officer does not appear, then you can tell the judge that the ticket has factual inconsistencies on the face of it, show the judge the ticket and your driver's license. If the issuing officer isn't available to testify about the ticket, then you very well could have the case dismissed.

I also note that when you say "your lawyer stepped down last week", your statement is not entirely clear. Does that mean your attorney told you he was quitting, on the phone or in an email? What it should mean is that your attorney has received permission from the court to withdrawal as your attorney, as per Cal. Code Civ. Pro. Sec. 284.2 and Cal. Rules of Ct., rule 3.1362 for an order permitting the attorney to be relieved of counsel. I note that the Cal. Rules of Professional Conduct...

So, the first place to start is with the distinction between a "claim" and an "action". An "action" is the actual lawsuit, the filing of papers in a court, which identifies the involved parties and the specific complaints as per the law. By contrast, a Claim relating to a cause of action for death or for injury to person or to personal property or to growing crops must be presented to the public entity, in the manner provided for in Government Code § 915, et seq., not later than six-months...

You could write a confidential letter to the opposing party, indicating that you believe they are in breach of the agreement, as they failed to abide by the terms of the settlement. In doing so, you could suggest (not threaten) that the settlement may be no longer in effect and that, therefore, the confidentiality terms of the settlement agreement, broadly speaking, are no longer in effect. That would put them in a position of having either to enforce the confidentiality requirements before...

Well, in legalese, what seems to have happened was, the "pre-approved finance" sales contract might possibly (I'm here presuming, and Attorney Kaufman's advice is useful) have had a clause which made execution of the final contract conditional on the obtaining of financing, in which case title to the vehicle never transferred to you. Do you have title to the car now? Then, once the financing was denied, the conditional clause was in play, allowing the dealer to claim that the contract...

A lawyer might need more information to understand exactly what is being alleged, but it is VERY unlikely that the "creative company" hired on a project owns a "piece of [your] company" merely because they claim they do. You might consider hiring a lawyer, before going to court, to help you write what is called a "cease and desist" letter. The letter might document the exchange which occurred (citing emails or phone conversations or other communications) in which agents of the "creative...